chimerical vs phantasmagoric

chimerical

adj
  • Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense). 

  • Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins. 

  • Impossible to physically produce due to having an impossibly-high saturation or luminosity, but viewable by overlaying an afterimage and a suitably-colored physical image. 

  • Of or pertaining to a chimera. 

  • Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful. 

phantasmagoric

adj
  • Characterized by or pertaining to a dreamlike blurring of real and imaginary elements. 

  • Characterized by or pertaining to rapid changes in light intensity and colour. 

How often have the words chimerical and phantasmagoric occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )